Lexical Definition

‎עָקֹב‎ ʻâqôb (aw-kobe') insidious ^H:A
from ‎עָקַב‎; in the original sense, a knoll (as swelling up); in the denominative sense

crooked, deceitful, polluted.

• (transitive) fraudulent or (intransitive) tracked

1) deceitful, sly, insidious
1a) deceitful, sly, insidious, slippery
1b) foot-tracked
2) steep, hilly

See Greek: βαθύς · λευκός · σκολιός

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎עָקֹב‎ adjective

1. insidious, deceitful, Jer 17:9 ‎עָקֹב הַלֵּב מִכֹּל‎.

2. foot-tracked (denominative from I. ‎עָקֵב‎) Hos 6:8 ‎גִּלְעָד קִרְיַת פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן עֲֹקֻבָּה מִדָּם‎.

II. ‎עָקֹב‎ adjective steep, hilly (see √; compare difficult mountain path, Qor 90:11 hill); — Isa 40:4 ‎והיה הֶעָקֹב לְמִישׁוֺר‎ let the steep ground (Chronicles) become a plain (|| ‎הָֽרְכָסִים‎). compare Eccl 6:20.

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